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Unreeve   Listen
verb
Unreeve  v. t.  (past & past part. unrove; pres. part. unreeving)  (Naut.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unreeve" Quotes from Famous Books



... supporting himself as well as he could by balancing his body with his feet | extended outwards straddle-ways, commenced to slash away at the mast here; while the rest of the men, under Mr Marline's directions, proceeded to clear away the rigging and unreeve those ropes which they were able to reach, in order to leave the spar clear for Jackson to ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson



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